The World’s Cutest Power Politics Simulator By Alexander B. Joy • March 13th, 2025 Root’s cute and cuddly aesthetic belies a cutthroat power politics simulator with a sophisticated understanding of asymmetric conflict.
No Accounting for Taste No Accounting for Taste – The Right Wing Batman By Adam Boffa • October 5th, 2017 In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Rising, progressive politics gets dressed up in the costume of a terrorist super villain.
Documentary Sunday Weiner By Megan Condis • August 2nd, 2017 “Like Huma, the film encourages us to step back and look at politicians like these with ‘a mixture of contempt and sadness.'”
The Questions That Keep Me Up At Night By Matt Sayer • February 28th, 2017 Criticizing a game’s themes and morals is important, but in these bleak times, escapism can be just as invaluable.
Spilled Ink Prophecy is Revolution without Revolution By Austin Price • February 8th, 2017 “What I cannot forgive is ambition that announces itself and then never materializes.”
The Politics of Ascension By Sam Desatoff • January 19th, 2017 Sam Desatoff is heir to an uneasy throne in his Expeditions: Viking beta review.
And the Prize for Truth Goes to… By Andrea Ayres • December 30th, 2016 Truth, and our trust in truth, is slipping away.
The Games I’m Forcing My Captive Family to Play This Holiday Season By Sam Desatoff • December 15th, 2016 “Games are a great way to stem that holiday stress and bring joy back to the season.”
Spilled Ink Akira or, “The Powers That Be” By Austin Price • November 30th, 2016 In Akira, politics only yield destruction.
Hate to Lose, Love to Win By Andrea Ayres • October 11th, 2016 “Our feelings about loss and failure tend to become more complicated when we begin to add in identity and social inclusion (or exclusion).”
